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At the group discussion, he/she will summarize the reading and lead a discussion of the passages read.
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Is there any part of the story that someone doesn't understand?
What did you think of the section we just read?
Are you enjoying the book so far?
What will happen next?
Once the group is finished discussing the text, the other students must log onto our wiki and answer the questions posted by the Discussion Director. During this time, the Discussion Director can edit and revise his/her summary or start reading the next section of the book. The Discussion Director is expected to provide effective feedback to each answer once they are posted.
After you're done the book click on your name and answer the following questions in the link:
What is the narrative Point-of-View (First person, second person or third person)? If it's third-person which character(s) thoughts and feelings are expressed?
What is the main central conflict in the novel (what is the problem that causes the story to happen)?
What are some themes or big ideas of the novel (what message is the author trying to send us about the world, what is the book about)?
What did you like about this book? Explain why you liked this part.
What didn't you like about this book? Explain why you didn't like this part.
December always gives Jonas's family excitement because it's Jonas's birthday, so Jonas has been talking about December and Jonas's father says that December always brings such changes.
Every people have their own things, they have to do. When kids like 8 and under can't ride bicycles, but the older kids secretly teach them how to ride a bicycles, so when they get their bicycles they could ride it whenever they have free time and don't have to have a guide that teaches them. When they turn 12, they are going to get trained to do more mature stuff and they are going to have less fun, but first they have to do the Ceremony Of Twelves, and Jonas's father said they are a long 2 days.
The receiver is the most important elder because the receiver is the decision maker for the rules and regulations. When they eat dinner they all have to share what they did for the day and share their feelings.
Jonas has a friend named Asher and he is a troublemaker, he make all things out of a joke. Jonas's sister Lily spent her after school hours in a childcare centre. Jonas likes a girl named Fiona, Fiona is a quiet and polite child. And theres this guy named Benjamin, and Benjamin, Jonas is always impress what Benjamin does.
Chapters 5-10 Discussion Director - Thuan
The day have come and Lily and Jonas have been getting ready for the ceremony. At the ceremony, Lily gets her volunteer hours and a jacket with buttons with pockets. She was now mature enough to keep her small belongings in her pockets.
Next came the 9's then 10's and 11's. Finally it was the 12's. Jonas was the 19th to be assigned. When The instructer was assigning Finally it was Jonas's turn. She continued and counted 20th instead she skipped him. Then it went on 21 22 the numbers came in order. Jonas sat feeling shocked. it went to the 30s then the 40s. After she knew her mistake she apologized and said that Jonas have not been assigned. Instead, ''He have been selected as there next receiver of memory.'' Jonas saw the audience faces. Still he doesn't understand. The receiver of memory is the most rare selection in the community.He was picked because he has all the quality's. Intelligence,Integrity,Courage and wisdom. She gave him a file and he went home with his family
That night he had read the paper. He read it two times. He was shocked because, of the last words. ''You may lie'' Chapters 11-15 Discussion Director - Zeana
When he first went to training the man first touched his back and Jonas felt unusual but at first he only felt a light touch on his back. In such ways Jonas think he took the old mans powers away. But Jonas only went for on ride. When they were done training Jonas felt unsure if he would ask but he did anyways. " It's just that i don't know your name. I thought you were The Receiver, but you say that now I'm The Receiver. So I don't know what to call you." The old man was going to tell him but it look like if he did then Jonas would be shock but then he did anyways. ' Call me The Giver ' He told Jonas. "
The time came where Jonas finally meets The Giver. But when he starts training Jonas has to get these memories that he's never gotten before. When the memories that The Giver is giving him is about snow and how he has never experienced it. But suddenly it turns into a nightmare for Jonas. For some reason before he like the first memory of snow but now it seems like he doesn't. " Jonas was jarred loose and thrown violently into the air. He fell with his leg twisted under him and could hear the crack of bone. His face scraped along jagged of ice and when he came to a stop, he lay shocked and still, feeling nothing at first but hear. "
He tried to wonder why The Giver gave him that kind of memory but he couldn't forget that memory. In witch case he wanted to know why and then asking " Why? " Why him? But that mean he would have to get those memories so then he would know what to do when he becomes the next Giver. When Jonas went into the Annex it seems though he new that he would be going away
16 - 20 Discussion Director - paris
The Giver is gentle with Jonas for days following the war memory. He gives Jonas wonderful memories of birthday parties, paintings in museums, horseback riding, and camping trips. None of these things exist in the community.
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When Jonas asks The Giver to describe his favorite memory, The Giver tells Jonas he wants to give it to him, not just describe it to him. The Giver transmits the memory of a group of people, very young and very old, opening presents under a tree covered in lights. He tells Jonas the memory is of family and love. Jonas asks who the two old people were, and The Giver tells him they are called grandparents. Jonas has never heard of Grandparents. In the community, parents aren’t a part of their children’s lives once their children become full adults. They go to the House of Childless Adults, and then the House of the Old, and they are released without their children even knowing. Jonas wishes aloud that his own family could be more like the family in the memory and that The Giver was his grandfather.
The next day, Jonas asks The Giver about release. The Giver responds that on days when his memories particularly pain him, he thinks of his own release. But then he reminds Jonas of the rule prohibiting Jonas or himself from asking for release. He tells Jonas that the rule was created ten years earlier, when the previous trainee failed.
The Giver tells Jonas that her name was Rosemary, and that he loved her very much, the same way he loves Jonas. She loved the happy memories The Giver gave her, but after receiving memories of loneliness, loss, and fear, she was sad that she applied for release without telling The Giver. Afterward, her memories were released to the community and The Giver was too grief-stricken to help the people cope with the lost memories.
later jonas does not like the word release and then he remember that his dad was gonna release a twin this mourning so since he was the receiver he could watch the release when he saw his dad inject a needle inside the newchilds head then put the child in a catron when Jona saw this happen he looked at what happened in horror.
later
21-23 Discussion Director - yasmein
Instead of waiting two weeks as he and the Giver had planned, Jonas is forced to escape right away. At the evening meal, his father tells the family that he tried to see if Gabriel could sleep through the night at the Nurturing Center, and that the newchild had cried all night. The staff, including Jonas’s father, voted to release him the next day. Jonas cannot allow this to happen, so he takes some leftover food and his father’s bicycle, which has a child seat, and leaves, relying on his own courage and strength instead of on the memories that the Giver had promised. Jonas has broken serious rules against leaving his dwelling at night and taking food. After riding all night, he and Gabe rest during the day, hiding from the planes that fly overhead searching for them. He transmits memories of exhaustion to Gabriel in order to make him sleep during the day, and in order to avoid the heat-seeking technology of the planes, he transmits memory of intense cold to both of them so that their body heat does not show up on the planes’ devices. After several days, when Jonas and Gabriel have left all communities far
The landscape around them begins to change: the terrain becomes bumpy and irregular, and Jonas falls and twists his ankle. He sees waterfalls and wildlife, all new things to him after a life of Sameness. He is happy to see beautiful things, but worries that he and Gabe might starve, since there is no sign of cultivated land anywhere around. He catches some fish in a makeshift net and gathers some berries, but they are only just enough. If he had stayed in the community, he would have had enough to eat, and he realizes that in choosing to leave, he chose to starve. But in the community he would have been hungry for feelings and color, and Gabriel would have died. The weather changes, and Jonas feels cold and hunger and pain from his twisted ankle. But he suspects that Elsewhere is not far away and hopes that he will be able to keep Gabriel alive.
behind, the planes come less frequently.
One day, it begins to snow, and Jonas’s bicycle cannot climb the steep hill that rises before them. Jonas has lost most of the memories he received from the Giver, but he tries to remember sunshine and the feeling of warmth that it gives. When it comes, he transmits the feeling to Gabriel, and it helps them make it up the hill on foot, despite the intense cold and hunger they feel. When he can no longer remember sunshine, and is almost totally numb with cold, Jonas remembers his friends and family and the Giver, and the happiness their memories give him helps him to reach the top. He recognizes the snow-covered summit of the hill, and somehow finds a sled waiting for him there. He gets in the sled and steers himself and Gabe to the bottom, toward warm, twinkling lights that glow from the windows of houses. He feels certain that the families in those houses, where they kept memories and celebrated love, were waiting for him and Gabe. Ahead of him, he hears singing for the first time in his life, and he thinks that he hears the music behind him too.
In the last chapters of The Giver, Jonas truly begins to exist in the world of his memories. This begins when he makes the drastic choice to escape ahead of schedule with Gabriel in tow. Jonas is aware that he is breaking rules against leaving his dwelling and taking food, but in reality he is breaking a much more serious rule, one on which his entire society is based. He is making choices for himself as an individual, and in doing this he is making himself important as an individual rather than as a member of a society. He is also making the choice that Gabriel’s individual life is more precious than the convenience of the community. At the same time, however, Jonas is making choices that affect the entire community, acting in what he considers their self-interest. This choice, though, opposes another fundamental rule of the society: everything should be done to avoid pain and discomfort. Jonas’s escape will cause the entire community great anguish for long periods of time until they have come to grips with the difficult memories he leaves behind him.
After his journey becomes difficult, the consequences of freedom become clearer to Jonas than they were in his memories or his meditations on choice and individuality. Feeling pain, hunger, and cold, Jonas realizes that all of his present misery is a direct result of his own actions. He understands for the first time that one choice always eliminates another choice. His community has chosen peace and comfort over extreme joy and pain, order over freedom, and Jonas sees that each choice has its advantages and disadvantages. But when he decides that the life he has chosen is better than the one he rejected, Jonas affirms that the important thing is choice. People with free choice have to accept the consequences of their actions, but in the end they will be happier to have the choice.
Jonas’s powers of memory become undeniably magical on his journey. Earlier in the novel, the process of receiving memories has seemed mystical and mysterious, the opposite of the carefully reasoned, intricately explained rules of the community, symbolizing how removed the citizens are from the complexity of emotion. On the road, however, Jonas’s mental powers become so strong that they are able to defy the community’s sophisticated tracking technology and defeat the natural world. Memories of cold keep Jonas and Gabriel safe from the heat-seeking planes searching overhead, and memories of warmth help them to stay alive in the bitter cold. The extent of Jonas’s powers to defy technology indicates that feelings have triumphed over cold logic in the story, regardless of whether Jonas survives his journey.
At the group discussion, he/she will summarize the reading and lead a discussion of the passages read.
Here are some possible discussion topics:
Once the group is finished discussing the text, the other students must log onto our wiki and answer the questions posted by the Discussion Director. During this time, the Discussion Director can edit and revise his/her summary or start reading the next section of the book. The Discussion Director is expected to provide effective feedback to each answer once they are posted.
After you're done the book click on your name and answer the following questions in the link:
What is the narrative Point-of-View (First person, second person or third person)? If it's third-person which character(s) thoughts and feelings are expressed?
What is the main central conflict in the novel (what is the problem that causes the story to happen)?
What are some themes or big ideas of the novel (what message is the author trying to send us about the world, what is the book about)?
What did you like about this book? Explain why you liked this part.
What didn't you like about this book? Explain why you didn't like this part.
John
Zeana
Thuan
Paris
Yasmein
Chapters 1-5: Discussion Director - John
December always gives Jonas's family excitement because it's Jonas's birthday, so Jonas has been talking about December and Jonas's father says that December always brings such changes.
Every people have their own things, they have to do. When kids like 8 and under can't ride bicycles, but the older kids secretly teach them how to ride a bicycles, so when they get their bicycles they could ride it whenever they have free time and don't have to have a guide that teaches them. When they turn 12, they are going to get trained to do more mature stuff and they are going to have less fun, but first they have to do the Ceremony Of Twelves, and Jonas's father said they are a long 2 days.
The receiver is the most important elder because the receiver is the decision maker for the rules and regulations. When they eat dinner they all have to share what they did for the day and share their feelings.
Jonas has a friend named Asher and he is a troublemaker, he make all things out of a joke. Jonas's sister Lily spent her after school hours in a childcare centre. Jonas likes a girl named Fiona, Fiona is a quiet and polite child. And theres this guy named Benjamin, and Benjamin, Jonas is always impress what Benjamin does.
Chapters 5-10 Discussion Director - Thuan
The day have come and Lily and Jonas have been getting ready for the ceremony. At the ceremony, Lily gets her volunteer hours and a jacket with buttons with pockets. She was now mature enough to keep her small belongings in her pockets.
Next came the 9's then 10's and 11's. Finally it was the 12's. Jonas was the 19th to be assigned. When The instructer was assigning Finally it was Jonas's turn. She continued and counted 20th instead she skipped him. Then it went on 21 22 the numbers came in order. Jonas sat feeling shocked. it went to the 30s then the 40s. After she knew her mistake she apologized and said that Jonas have not been assigned. Instead, ''He have been selected as there next receiver of memory.'' Jonas saw the audience faces. Still he doesn't understand. The receiver of memory is the most rare selection in the community.He was picked because he has all the quality's. Intelligence,Integrity,Courage and wisdom. She gave him a file and he went home with his family
That night he had read the paper. He read it two times. He was shocked because, of the last words. ''You may lie''
Chapters 11-15 Discussion Director - Zeana
When he first went to training the man first touched his back and Jonas felt unusual but at first he only felt a light touch on his back. In such ways Jonas think he took the old mans powers away. But Jonas only went for on ride. When they were done training Jonas felt unsure if he would ask but he did anyways. " It's just that i don't know your name. I thought you were The Receiver, but you say that now I'm The Receiver. So I don't know what to call you." The old man was going to tell him but it look like if he did then Jonas would be shock but then he did anyways. ' Call me The Giver ' He told Jonas. "
The time came where Jonas finally meets The Giver. But when he starts training Jonas has to get these memories that he's never gotten before. When the memories that The Giver is giving him is about snow and how he has never experienced it. But suddenly it turns into a nightmare for Jonas. For some reason before he like the first memory of snow but now it seems like he doesn't. " Jonas was jarred loose and thrown violently into the air. He fell with his leg twisted under him and could hear the crack of bone. His face scraped along jagged of ice and when he came to a stop, he lay shocked and still, feeling nothing at first but hear. "
He tried to wonder why The Giver gave him that kind of memory but he couldn't forget that memory. In witch case he wanted to know why and then asking " Why? " Why him? But that mean he would have to get those memories so then he would know what to do when he becomes the next Giver.
When Jonas went into the Annex it seems though he new that he would be going away
16 - 20 Discussion Director - paris
21-23 Discussion Director - yasmein
Instead of waiting two weeks as he and the Giver had planned, Jonas is forced to escape right away. At the evening meal, his father tells the family that he tried to see if Gabriel could sleep through the night at the Nurturing Center, and that the newchild had cried all night. The staff, including Jonas’s father, voted to release him the next day. Jonas cannot allow this to happen, so he takes some leftover food and his father’s bicycle, which has a child seat, and leaves, relying on his own courage and strength instead of on the memories that the Giver had promised. Jonas has broken serious rules against leaving his dwelling at night and taking food. After riding all night, he and Gabe rest during the day, hiding from the planes that fly overhead searching for them. He transmits memories of exhaustion to Gabriel in order to make him sleep during the day, and in order to avoid the heat-seeking technology of the planes, he transmits memory of intense cold to both of them so that their body heat does not show up on the planes’ devices. After several days, when Jonas and Gabriel have left all communities far
The landscape around them begins to change: the terrain becomes bumpy and irregular, and Jonas falls and twists his ankle. He sees waterfalls and wildlife, all new things to him after a life of Sameness. He is happy to see beautiful things, but worries that he and Gabe might starve, since there is no sign of cultivated land anywhere around. He catches some fish in a makeshift net and gathers some berries, but they are only just enough. If he had stayed in the community, he would have had enough to eat, and he realizes that in choosing to leave, he chose to starve. But in the community he would have been hungry for feelings and color, and Gabriel would have died. The weather changes, and Jonas feels cold and hunger and pain from his twisted ankle. But he suspects that Elsewhere is not far away and hopes that he will be able to keep Gabriel alive.
behind, the planes come less frequently.
One day, it begins to snow, and Jonas’s bicycle cannot climb the steep hill that rises before them. Jonas has lost most of the memories he received from the Giver, but he tries to remember sunshine and the feeling of warmth that it gives. When it comes, he transmits the feeling to Gabriel, and it helps them make it up the hill on foot, despite the intense cold and hunger they feel. When he can no longer remember sunshine, and is almost totally numb with cold, Jonas remembers his friends and family and the Giver, and the happiness their memories give him helps him to reach the top. He recognizes the snow-covered summit of the hill, and somehow finds a sled waiting for him there. He gets in the sled and steers himself and Gabe to the bottom, toward warm, twinkling lights that glow from the windows of houses. He feels certain that the families in those houses, where they kept memories and celebrated love, were waiting for him and Gabe. Ahead of him, he hears singing for the first time in his life, and he thinks that he hears the music behind him too.
In the last chapters of The Giver, Jonas truly begins to exist in the world of his memories. This begins when he makes the drastic choice to escape ahead of schedule with Gabriel in tow. Jonas is aware that he is breaking rules against leaving his dwelling and taking food, but in reality he is breaking a much more serious rule, one on which his entire society is based. He is making choices for himself as an individual, and in doing this he is making himself important as an individual rather than as a member of a society. He is also making the choice that Gabriel’s individual life is more precious than the convenience of the community. At the same time, however, Jonas is making choices that affect the entire community, acting in what he considers their self-interest. This choice, though, opposes another fundamental rule of the society: everything should be done to avoid pain and discomfort. Jonas’s escape will cause the entire community great anguish for long periods of time until they have come to grips with the difficult memories he leaves behind him.
After his journey becomes difficult, the consequences of freedom become clearer to Jonas than they were in his memories or his meditations on choice and individuality. Feeling pain, hunger, and cold, Jonas realizes that all of his present misery is a direct result of his own actions. He understands for the first time that one choice always eliminates another choice. His community has chosen peace and comfort over extreme joy and pain, order over freedom, and Jonas sees that each choice has its advantages and disadvantages. But when he decides that the life he has chosen is better than the one he rejected, Jonas affirms that the important thing is choice. People with free choice have to accept the consequences of their actions, but in the end they will be happier to have the choice.
Jonas’s powers of memory become undeniably magical on his journey. Earlier in the novel, the process of receiving memories has seemed mystical and mysterious, the opposite of the carefully reasoned, intricately explained rules of the community, symbolizing how removed the citizens are from the complexity of emotion. On the road, however, Jonas’s mental powers become so strong that they are able to defy the community’s sophisticated tracking technology and defeat the natural world. Memories of cold keep Jonas and Gabriel safe from the heat-seeking planes searching overhead, and memories of warmth help them to stay alive in the bitter cold. The extent of Jonas’s powers to defy technology indicates that feelings have triumphed over cold logic in the story, regardless of whether Jonas survives his journey.